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April 2, 2021
News & Commentary

Alexandra Butler

Last week, more than 714,000 people turned to state unemployment systems for relief, 63,000 more than the week prior. Despite the increase, many economists are hopeful, as current trends have been marked by an increase in hiring and a decrease in layoffs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ March jobs report seems to confirm these trends. Nonfarm payroll employment […]

December 11, 2020
News & Commentary

Alexandra Butler

As the pandemic worsens and in light of business closures and decreases in consumer spending, unemployment claims are steadily rising. For the week of December 5, 853,000 people (seasonally adjusted) joined the millions of other workers who have turned to state unemployment systems for economic relief. Last week’s initial claims marked a 137,000 increase from those filed […]

July 8, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

The Partnership for Working Families and the National Employment Law Project released a report yesterday outlining the harms posed by Proposition 22, the California ballot initiative backed by $110 million from Uber, Lyft, Postmates, Instacart, and Doordash. If passed, the ballot initiative would exempt app-based transportation and delivery companies from AB 5, a California law […]

June 26, 2020
News & Commentary

Alexandra Butler

The Labor Department reported 1.48 million new unemployment claims for the week of June 20, revealing the extent to which the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the labor market. While the number of weekly claims has decreased since the beginning of the crisis, a recent New York Times article emphasizes the uncertainty, and as one economist terms it, […]

November 13, 2019
News & Commentary

Alisha Jarwala

A former McDonald’s employee is suing the company for its pervasive culture of sexual harassment. Plaintiff Jenna Ries alleges that she was frequently harassed by her manager while working at a McDonald’s in Mason, Michigan between 2017 and 2019. Ries told reporters that she also witnessed her coworkers, some of who were underage, being harrassed, […]

October 10, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

Yesterday The New York Times spotlighted a post-Janus battle in Alaska over public sector union membership. While Alaska has traditionally been friendly union territory, Governor Mike Dunleavy, a conservative Republican who took office late last year, has shown open hostility toward the state’s labor movement. Most recently, he issued an administrative order aimed at making […]

March 28, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

This week the National Employment Law Project released a report detailing how gig companies like Uber and Handy have led a state-by-state lobbying effort with corporate partners to strip gig workers of the legal protections afforded to employees. The report explains that in 2018 alone, the companies’ coordinated campaign resulted in the introduction of bills […]

February 14, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

Yesterday New York City Council Members Brad Lander and Adrienne Adams introduced two bills that together would require fast-food corporations to demonstrate “just cause” for discharging employees. The legislation has a broad definition of discharge, encompassing “termination, constructive discharge, reduction in hours [of at least 15% per week], and indefinite suspension.” Just cause is defined […]

Uber’s Political Program in the States

Jan 19, 2018 Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs

The National Employment Law Project and the Partnership for Working Families are out today with a new report, “Uber State Interference: How Transportation Network Companies Buy, Bully, and Bamboozle Their Way To Deregulation”. The report provides a comprehensive look at Uber’s strategy to aggressively push for state legislation to protect its business model. Such legislation, […]

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